Tyla and David on the streets of New Orleans where environment, style, and fashion meet.

Surrounded by the riches of scene and comforted by the periphery of environment we are spoiled photographers in New Orleans. Walk anywhere with a shallow depth of field mind and keen eye for focus and you will find an abundance of your best photographs yet to be taken. Bring a pen or bring a pad, you're gonna be jotting down intersections, street names, and GPS coordinates until you run out of room or time. There are so many. Too many.

I have a few images to share from a recent fashion branding shoot with Canal Place in New Orleans where I got to work with some top tier talent in front and behind the camera. Over an 8 hour period we shuffled our crew to 5 locations and created some of my favorite location portraits yet. I brought with me my trusty Paul C. Buff Alien Bees mostly for their light weight and ease of "run and gun" mode. I was using a single softbox and reflector on most images and balancing the sun with my Variable Neutral Density Filter set. As you can see I am not a big fan of "LOOK AT MY STROBES" when I shoot portraits. I think using a subtle lighting approach to environmental portraits for branding is the key to make the clients product shine and the city do it's thing. Here are a few I can share, but first the credits:

Client: Canal Place

Design Agency: Deep Fried Advertising

Talent Agency: FiftyTwo45 / Talent: Tyla, David, and Megan

Talent Agency: ATA / Talent: Caleb

Sylist: Andi Eaton / Hair: Emily Cambre / MUA: Artistry By Camille

Assistants: Sarrah Danziger, Bruce France, Matthew Seymour

See how the client uses the images on it's website...canalplacestyle.com